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We are disappointed with these results. The combined effects of weaker demand in the industry segments we serve, seasonality and longer customer purchase-decision cycles all had a greater negative effect on our quarter than we anticipated.

Dave House

At the time we started the business renewal, I could already see that scale is important. We determined in order to get the right financial ratios and have enough investments in R&D and in order to become a real leader in the industry in the market segments where we play, that it would be beneficial to try and become bigger.

Frans Van Houten

I think he's got to, at some point, learn how to play long segments of games and learn how to win when you don't feel 100 percent. In the playoffs, if you want to win one or two rounds, you have to go 10, 15 games in a row and find ways to win when everything isn't just right.

Brad Shaw

Women are one of the most important segments of the adventure travel industry. Women make the vast majority of travel decisions in families - not only the destinations, but the activities. They are the predominant adventure travel planners.

Chris Doyle

What we try do is cover a broader representation of Internet stocks for our investors. So we tend to invest in a number of sub-segments, within the Internet sector, B2C, B2B, infrastructure software, infrastructure hardware, and so on and so forth.

Bob Grandhi

While I have been an ardent supporter of bringing professional soccer to the area, I have privately and publicly encouraged the organization to strongly consider a more appropriate name, one which is free of controversy and embraced with enthusiasm by all segments of the community.

Commissioner Sylvia Garcia

When we talk about a 'store of the community,' it is particularly important when we look at the ethnic customer segments that we have.

Pat Curran

We are also working closely with our business partners to exceed customer expectations across our consumer, business and wholesale segments.

Bill Morrow

Each suite in the lineup is matching up to those particular segments.

George Kafkarkou

Predators stalk and attack the most vulnerable segments of society, our children.

Marcy Forman

Now that we have machines that we think meet the needs of the people in these segments, we believe we are able to give our business partners more opportunities to talk to new customers.

Jeff Kirke

There are a number of segments of the marketplace that I'd like to see us continue to reach out to and Latins is one of those. Kids from the ages of 12 until the time they get out of college are an area we need to focus on. They're great through Little League, and then through high school we tend to lose some of them.

Bob Dupuy

What's really behind all of this is that there were expectations for international data growth, business services growth, Internet growth and the higher value-added segments that just have not transpired.

David Staples

My philosophy is that we are here to serve the community and provide an environment where people can do their research and do their studies, without interference from the wrong segments of society.

John Difava

Keeping those two segments of the country from fragmenting is not going to be an easy task. He will have to throw concessions to both sides. He cannot rigidly be on the side of one or the other.

Nicolas Shumway

Market share gains and solid execution drove strong results for the March quarter. Recently, at our analyst and investors event, we announced our entrance into the clean and strip market segments and believe these areas will provide additional opportunities for growth in the future.

Steve Newberry

The joint efforts of the two technology leaders will result in new solutions for customers to access networked information in new and creative ways, ... By sharing patents, 3Com and IBM have greater freedom to develop exciting new products and compete in new information technology market segments.

Bruce Claflin

The stream of thought flows on; but most of its segments fall into the bottomless abyss of oblivion. Of some, no memory survives the instant of their passage. Of others, it is confined to a few moments, hours or days. Others, again, leave vestiges which are indestructible, and by means of which they may be recalled as long as life endures.

William James

One alternative would be to organize around customers and market segments or to organize, for example, around WSJ as a franchise. Either would involve more integration for print and online. Advertisers could be expecting us to be approaching them not just with a print offering and with an online offering, but with a cross-media offering.

Richard Zannino

There is no question that there is a greater propensity to travel across all segments -- leisure, group and business.

Scott Berman

The purchase will make us stronger in all segments, especially maritime communications.

Scott Hoyt

We believe Salesforce.com had a strong finish to their fiscal 2006, driven by robust subscriber additions in both [small- and medium-sized business] and enterprise customer segments.

Brent Thill

We assume that in some segments (rural communications) and regional markets (remote districts) we remain monopolists. But there are markets where competition with mobile and alternative fixed-line operators is very high. And these are firstly major Russian cities.

Valery Yashin

Online brokerage has grown by appealing to the smallest, most aggressive, self-directed segments. There just aren't any of these people left.

Ken Clemmer

One is not sure how much of the allocated funds will land up reaching the targeted segments.

Rajiv Malik

We remain concerned that continued declines in PC pricing will continue to make PC revenue growth harder for Dell, ... We are lowering our PC growth estimates... We also expect Dell to face tougher competition in the enterprise hardware and services segments.

Bill Fearnley

We believe that online investing is going to be one of the highest growth business segments of the next decade.

Masayoshi Son

During each of these segments we also will take viewer phone calls. If they have any thoughts on what they are hearing or seeing, they can offer their two cents or pose a question.

David Solomon

We're continuing to see consistent demand across all segments now.

Ted Waitt

We're going to try a few segments to spice things up a little bit.

Terry Connelly

I can't praise the foundation enough for all of the good things they do supporting terrific programs that benefit all segments of the community. They are fantastic.

Nancy Pitt

Results from these areas more than offset revenue declines in some other segments, most notably our consumer PC business.

Louis Gerstner

We believe our revenues will improve in the second fiscal quarter of 2002. In fact, we are seeing early signs of increased customer spending in some segments of our business for that quarter, ... This isn't surprising because even our customers' reduced forecasts for calendar 2002 are still higher than their rate of spending in the current quarter.

Henry Schacht

This indictment is confused, confusing and internally inconsistent. It uses terminology which no one can define and time segments which are impossible to assess.

Herbert Stern

3D is one of the fastest growing segments in computing and Voodoo3's ... performance will enable our enthusiast gamers as well as mainstream consumers to experience the next generation of highly complex 3D interactive entertainment.

Greg Ballard

We're pleased to see improvements in all segments, ... The company's stations group had record operating results with each of the divisions - radio, outdoor and television - contributing to the results.

Mel Karmazin

It does again reinforce the concern that Nokia does very well at the end of the market, but is still rather struggling in the more highly priced segments.

Mark Davies

What we've found is, if you look at a couple segments of science, observational or modeling, there is no illustrated link between climate change and hurricane intensity. We actually have periods of intensity followed by periods of lower intensity. We have evidence of periods going back to the 1930s. It follows a clear pattern.

Kent Laborde

The growth we see in Hispanic-owned businesses illustrates the changing fabric of American's business and industry. With Hispanic businesses among the fastest growing segments of our economy, this is a good indicator of how competitiveness is driving the American economy.

Louis Kincannon

Vendors are likely to see a fundamental shift in the market as they come to grips with the steep decline in mature-market desk-based growth and are forced to seek growth in other market segments.

George Shiffler

We don't have the frequency yet. When we're not in an emergency, current and topical information will be given about the community, such as City Hall or road closings, and we plan to deliver the information in English, Spanish and Creole in around 10-minute segments.

Ivan Ladizinsky

If they are in an audit situation, we can't confirm or deny it. The IRS looks at numerous market segments. But government agencies, they're not immune either.

Gloria Sutton

It's important to say that there's been a lot of (anti-smoking) activity, and it's by many segments of California society. Health plans have been part of that, and combined it's been pretty darn effective.

Chris Ohman

In addition to higher industry oil and gas prices, Phillips continued to benefit from cost reductions and strong operations across all business segments.

Jim Mulva

We're not going to ignore segments of the community. We're just going to have to communicate better that the whole community will be better ... if we concentrate on the areas that need the most and bring the whole city all up. I think most people will agree.

Julio Vázquez Sr

That?s indicative that there?s unrest over this plan from several segments of the community.

Sally Mackler

There's always going to be that divide when it comes to pop music. Certain segments of the audience are always going to be distrustful of music that they feel is not authentic. If you get all caught up in notions of realness and authenticity, then Ashlee is going to strike you as being girlish ... and not serious.

Craig Marks

We like GE at this point primarily because all of its big business segments are really firing nicely.

John Jacobs

Occupancies overall will probably be down a little bit because of the building boom that is occurring in some of the segments, ... but the average rate probably will increase.

Bill Fisher

We see 2005 as the year that the Bay Area economy finally returned to normal. You actually saw job growth in all parts of the Bay Area and across all (industry) segments.

Paul Fassinger

Notwithstanding the higher investment spending in the past year, going forward, we will continue to invest in faster growth segments.

John Mcfarlane

Intel's Core architecture will address the power gap in the server and desktop segments, and the larger, shared L2 cache will address memory bandwidth/latency issues related to Intel's front side bus design.

Ben Lynch

It looks like AMD is taking share across all segments.

Kevin Rottinghaus

It's planned the project will proceed in four segments.

Don Richards

There are so many segments that are appropriate today.

Lee Mendelson

Verizon is putting an obvious emphasis on communities with greater resources and is ignoring large segments of the state.

Dr. Karen Alexander

Intel is committed to expanding the blade ecosystem. New market segments and broader solutions are already emerging from the Blade.org community, and Intel will continue to work closely with the consortium to create new blade solutions.

Kirk Skaugen

When you look at medium vs. large SUVs, I think there is already a lot of back-and-forth shopping and buying between those segments, and that will continue.

Sam Pack

School divides life into two segments, which are increasingly of comparable length. As much as anything else, schooling implies custodial care for persons who are declared undesirable elsewhere by the simple fact that a school has been built to serve them.

Ivan Illich

This is a great finish to our first fiscal year as an independent company. We believe these results demonstrate the enormous growth opportunities in the communications industry and that our focus on the industry's fastest growing segments is paying off.

Richard Mcginn

Sales of existing products are slow in some segments, such as the cookies and cakes, and Weston does need to be innovative to keep sales momentum going.

Patrick Schumann

In a robust global business environment, our business units operated well in the first quarter. More importantly, we are continuing to demonstrate our ability to deliver complex and mission critical solutions to clients all across our industry segments.

Harry You

We don't want to have a political laundry list of projects, so we are looking at segments where we have the most congesting and attacking those.

Sunne Wright Mcpeak

Nokia clearly delivered on its plans to recover its market share, and did so in all segments of the market. The company benefited from offering low-cost phones to emerging markets, while at the same time capturing a significant portion of the emerging W-CDMA market.

Scott Smyser

Their rate of growth is high. A lot about investing is getting in the market segments where the rate of growth is high.

Francis Gaskins

The company clearly benefited from the sale of the handset and infrastructure businesses in 1999. The remaining segments offer much better profitability.

Marc Cabi

Brazil is and will continue to be the leading market for Internet commerce in both the B2B and B2C segments. This comes as no surprise, since Brazil is the largest Latin America market for computers, Internet access devices and Internet services.

Noah Elkin

This is a very large number of political parties and this is evidence that everyone from all segments of society want to participate in this political process.

Hamdieh Husseini

It's encouraging to see not just the number but the sales and receipts of black-owned businesses are growing at such a robust rate, confirming that these firms are among the fastest growing segments of our economy.

Louis Kincannon

We expect all of the business segments to grow.

Bill Aylesworth

We are excited to introduce Nokia's smallest ever Bluetooth Headset BH-800 to the market. I'm confident that the stylish minimalist design coupled with the tiny size of the product will attract completely new consumer segments globally.

Razvan Olosu

We expect 2006 to be the year that 2005 should have been. We project strong employment growth – 2 percent or better – that will begin to stretch many segments of the local labor force.

Lyssa Jenkens

There is significant synergy between Opel and Saturn. Both brands play in similar market segments, have similar competitors and target similar customers in their respective regions.

Jill Lajdziak

These are the fastest growing segments, and are markets in which CA can take a lead. I want us to be the category leader or number-two in each space we operate in, and be seen as mindshare leader and as an innovator.

John Swainson

There are different segmentations of men (buying jewelry). Some men are more of the Ralph Lauren set, penny loafers and blue blazers. Then you have the Wall Street business types. It has really taken hold in all segments of the market.

Brian Nohe

Politics may have failed the people of New Orleans. ... But their newspaper and other important segments of the American press did not fail them.

Tim Rutten

We are all in this thing together. We're going to pull all the segments together and that will make them all feel better about what they are doing.

Dan Maltby

[We're interested in] understanding a little bit more about what different segments are interested in with our product offerings and perhaps doing a little bit more in the CRM area of connecting with them on content or events they might be interested in - so both acquisition and retention.

Janet Farness

Since our first report 20 years ago, we've seen historic scientific advances and dramatic changes in market conditions combine to produce a rapidly maturing industry. Companies from around the globe are pioneering new technologies, platforms, industry segments, and business models.

Donn Szaro

We?re pleased with our performance in the second quarter. The 3% net sales gain was on top of a 4% increase in last year?s second quarter, and all three of our business segments posted sales growth for the period.

Steve Sanger

That would leave us some money to grow the group into what we see as a very attractive market in many segments for the next few years.

Dane Douetil

Going forward, we intend to consolidate our market share in the two segments as there is massive headroom for growth.

James Macharia

The sweet spot continues to be midrange products. A lot of the features and functionality once only in the high end has migrated its way down to lower segments of market. That combined with the fact that many midrange products offer multiple tiers of storage is driving the growth.

Brad Nisbet

We think supply growth is rather limited. In the meantime, ( DRAM) demand will not be so bad in those segments such as notebook (computer), server...and game consoles.

O.c. Kwon

Out of stocks are the dirty little secret of all retailer segments and tiers. Lost sales are a far bigger problem than markdowns for overall retailer health.

Paula Rosenblum

We look at piracy in two segments: the distribution channel and within the end-user community.

Nancy Anderson

It is a simple model, although realistic enough to capture the principles of locomotion. First, you have a stick figure model, with a bunch of segments joined by joints. Then you assign weights to those segments and compute the physics of the posture. When the foot is joined to the ground, you can compute the forces.

John Hutchinson

The Internet is going to help it to specialize, to change its way of covering the news to create highly tailored products for different segments of the audience.

Philip Meyer

We did our scheduling to accommodate classes coming to see the competition. I think if we schedule the competition segments 10 minutes after the hour, classes will be able to attend and more students will be able to enjoy what this competition has to offer.

Vivian León

The major disappointment was perhaps the lack of revenue growth. If you look at each of the (defense unit) segments, they all with one exception seem weaker than anticipated.

Paul Nisbet

Improved performance in our Pennsylvania delivery and international delivery business segments more than offset the tighter margins in our supply business segment.

William Hecht

Both the enterprise traditional access point and the SOHO (small office/home office) segments surpassed the $1 billion landmark in 2005.

Aaron Vance

The changes we have been making to our automotive operations for the past two years are beginning to pay off. We have developed a very strong product line-up around the world, particularly in the fastest growing segments.

Alex Trotman

All business segments ranging from digital products to social infrastructure systems achieved sales growth and profit increases, allowing us to now enjoy well-balanced growth.

Sadazumi Ryu

They have nothing to celebrate. Revenues were just 'blah' all around. Very mediocre in all segments.

Nitsan Hargil

Our population has never been so united in all segments. We must take hold of that and make something good of it.

Ardis Wood

We believe we have put in place an aggressive but achievable plan to reach our goals this year. As an integral part of this, we will continue to sharpen our marketing focus in each of our business segments.

Tom Kilian

The company continues to impress on its ability to protect the bottom line in the face of temporary slowdowns in one or more business segments.

Tao Levy

The light truck market is one of the hottest segments in Australia and this new model will ensure Ford remains at the forefront of this important market.

Tom Gorman

We remain unconvinced that consumer appetite for mobile TV services exists outside of niche segments.

Phil Taylor

The Fusion, Milan and Zephyr are helping us to carve out a larger share of the market among mid-size car buyers. These cars are helping our dealers to retain our owners and capture new ones in one of the largest segments in the industry.

Al Giombetti

The key to our system is the constant testing. We let advertisers narrowly focus on who the consumer is, to push offers that make sense in small segments. The testing allows them to craft offers that perform best in those areas.

Lance Nelson

We are enjoying strong, consistent car sales and good growth in our light-truck segments. And we expect this trend to continue in 2006 as we enter new segments and introduce new versions of some of our most popular models.

Dick Colliver

What will slow this market down, and has slowed certain segments of the market down, is overpricing, ... Back in the spring there was such a frenzy that very pedestrian product was drawing multiple bids.

Pamela Liebman

We expect that GSM will continue its robust growth, particularly due to its capability to serve both high and low economic segments respectively due to its proven technology capabilities and successful applications and its economies of scale to enable phones at manufacturer costs less than US$40.

Eva Benguigui

By joining our companies together, we will dominate the two fastest growing segments of the financial services industry, retirement savings and international markets, ... This marriage is a great cultural fit, with complementary businesses and a distribution network that is second to none.

Eli Broad

There are two big market segments driving downtown residential: the young professionals and the empty nesters. We've had a very low number of empty nesters.

Ed Wolverton